Hydrological Modeling and Assessment of Meteorological and Geological Hazards

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, rapid population growth has led to enormous amounts of pressure being put on resources and the environment. Continuous human activities and climate change have caused the deterioration of ecological environments, resulting in a series of meteorological, geological, and other natural disasters. Disaster prevention and reduction is a common goal pursued by all countries in the world. In natural disaster risk monitoring and assessment, hydrological ecological models and risk assessment indicators can give full consideration to the advantages of numerical simulation, correlation analysis, and generalized reasoning methods and have been widely used in the past 20 years. Understanding the impact of human activities and climate change in key regions is conducive to regional natural disaster risk management, the establishment of a natural disaster risk assessment system, and the provision of scientific support for disaster prevention and reduction. However, controlling disaster risk completely seems impractical, especially since quantifying human activities is often difficult. In these cases, reliable methods such as hydrological models and numerical simulations seem to be the most promising way to reduce natural disasters and increase social resilience.

Given this scientific framework, we would like to invite scientists involved in this research field to contribute to this Special Issue, which will broadly focus on the analysis, evaluation, and simulation of natural disasters caused by climate change, human activities, or other drivers, including the risk management and assessment of meteorological disasters and geological disasters. Therefore, manuscripts dealing with case studies of climate change simulation, the impacts of human activities, large-scale or regional drought disasters, the assessment of geological environment trends, and risk analysis of natural disasters at different scales will also be welcomed.

Prof. Dr. Aidi Huo
Prof. Dr. Pingping Luo
Dr. Chunli Zheng
Guest Editors

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• climate change
• meteorological and geological disaster
• risk assessment
• hydrological simulation